Mr. Tom Donnellan:

I cannot accept that. A few months ago, there were two schools of thought for Bord na Móna. One school of thought was that Bord na Móna is coming to an end and we should maximise redundancy, maximise pension and pull up the drawbridge. That was the stated position of a number of people. Our board has four worker directors, elected by the employees. We asked them to go and talk to the employees in the company to ascertain what they wanted. They came back to us and distinctly said the feedback from the employees was that they wanted their jobs for as long as possible. They were not about redundancy and maximising pension. That is the route we have followed.